Best of
African-Literature
1999
Scrapiron Blues
Dambudzo Marechera - 1999
In the "Concentration Camp," Marechera gives a poetic, deeply felt voice to the dread experienced by former inhabitants of the "keeps," the restricted villages of Zimbabwe's War of Liberation. Often he takes a child's view to measure the horrors of adult society. Gentleness paired with sarcasm marks his hardly known children's stories.
The prophetess
Njabulo S. Ndebele - 1999